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RAD Studio May 2017 Roadmap and Commentary

Does Z-Order support make FireMonkey rendering of text in RTL
languages such as Arabic on Android display correctly?
thanks

Comment by Ray on May 19, 07:50

RAD Studio May 2017 Roadmap and Commentary

Hei, Marco.
Thank you for sharing the roadmap!
Regarding to C++ compiler. In my opinion it is great C++ IDE, but it
is suffering of low compatibility with many widely used libraries.
And seems it is one of the goals for next year - add support of 3th
party libraries. Could you share list of libraries you are going to
support? I understand it is just a plan and it may change, but it is nice
to know a direction we go. For me OpenCV is number one. Is it in the
list?

Comment by Andrei Galatyn on May 22, 08:59

RAD Studio May 2017 Roadmap and Commentary

Are you going to fix and (significantly) improve
performance of code insight in the IDE? That would
really help a lot! Thanks in advance!

Comment by Andrew on May 22, 12:44

RAD Studio May 2017 Roadmap and Commentary

I hope you manage to fix RSP-17948 in 10.2.1 Update

Comment by Artur on May 25, 12:26

RAD Studio May 2017 Roadmap and Commentary

In the RAD Studio Roadmap, Research Areas page, you
should add WebAssembly (WASM). This could become an
interesting Delphi compile target in ~2019.

RAD Studio May 2017 Roadmap and Commentary

Personally I am a little bit disappointing with the
new road map, mainly because it seems that we
will have at least to wait 3 years to have Delphi
running on Linux ARM. The second
disappointment is that there no annoncement for
an add-on for the pro version for getting Delphi
working on linux.
I do learn at home and transfer things I did learn
quite often in the compony I am working in. I will
not buy a enterprise version for learning at home,
Embarcadero university program is not me. So
what should I do? drop my subscription?
The only option left is to run Delphi on a Win10
LattePanda board with the Pro version of Delphi.
The learning potential for learning something
useful is low, so I will not do it. LattePanda is just
a windows PC without the keyboard and the
screen. The price and energy consumption limit
also the kind of product you can develop with
these things.
Then was thinking ok, forget about SOC let learn
some framework for computer vision or deep
learning with c++ builder. There are so many
things interesting going on, with c++ builder and
c++ builder Starter is free! But actually we
cannot compile for example OpenCV with c++
Builder. At least it seems that Embarcadero is
aware of the problem, and we can see things
related to the problem on the road map. But yes it
will take time, 1 or two year I presume.
So what can I do to use these amazing open
source frameworks for computer vision and deep
learning in Delphi or C++ builder. Well in fact
there is a way. I did download Codeblocks, build a
small DLL and load it in Delphi/C++ builder.
Passing data and events between Delphi/C++
builder and the DLL build Codeblocks works
well, so I presumes I could also put some
OpenCV stuff in the DLL and use them from
within Delphi or C++ Builder. Codeblocks adds
some characters to the name of the function
exported but in fact there is a tool that is delivered
with Delphi (tdump.exe) and it was not really a
problem. The only problem was to know that
Tdump.exe exist! So Ok there is a way, but it is
far from being a good solution because the
process is time consuming and I think not so well
documented by Embarcadero. So the overall value
of my subscription is for me today rather low.
But Ok, I am ready to wait 2 to 3 year but please,
improve the product documentation and value in
the "Interoperability" area!

Comment by Alexandre Jacquot on May 27, 15:44

RAD Studio May 2017 Roadmap and Commentary

I can't figure why embarcadero doesn't see webassembly as big
opportunity for Delphi and C Builder. With little effort they can beat
concurency, they only need to port FireMonkey to webgl and support
webassembly. With this aproach we will have the same language on
server and web browser. In that case will be possible to use existing
Firemonkey form designer for designing web forms and this
applications will be fast robust and gui will have same look and
behaviour on diferent browsers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v4E6oksar0

Comment by Danijel Premus on January 20, 22:15

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